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Barbara Mertz has as many aliases as a bank robber. But her profession, although equally lucrative, is more honorable. Mertz is the author of 65 books, most of them mysteries written using the pseudonyms Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters, some of them books about Egypt under her own name. It is her Peters alter ego who has the latest book out: Children of the Storm (Morrow). It continues the Egypt-based saga of heroine Amelia Peabody, a spirited archaeologist, and her headstrong archaeologist husband Radcliffe Emerson...
...glamour of Egypt, the mummies, the pyramids and the shifting sands ensnared Mertz, 75, when she was 13. Unlike most dreamy adolescents, she went on to earn a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago by the time she was 23. That was in 1950, when the possibility of a woman's becoming a working archaeologist seemed remote. "We took it for granted that women couldn't do some things," she says...
...took up writing again, after being inspired by Friedan's polemic, she wrote three books for which she couldn't find a publisher. With the fourth she was successful, and has remained so ever since. She turns out about one mystery a year, and tries to go to Egypt just as often. "I'm still fascinated by the romanticism of Egypt," says Mertz. "Part of me never grew...
...Saudi Arabia may have been orchestrated from Iran. More tantalizing, perhaps, are reports that Tehran has told the Australian government that Iran has arrested al-Qaeda's Number 3 man, Saif al-Adel - a possible suspect in the Riyadh bombings - and plans to deport him to his native Egypt, where he could be arrested by the U.S. Handing over key al-Qaeda suspects would certainly give greater credence to Tehran's claim to be helping the global crackdown on bin Laden's movement, but until such time as they do, the pressure is likely to continue...
...problems in the aftermath are shocking and far from being solved. A humanitarian catastrophe is devastating a whole country. Millions of people are suffering terribly. It's time to think of peace and aid for the victims of American aggression against Iraq. MOZAFAR AHMED AL-HIYYAL Alexandria, Egypt...